Problem with 16:9 aspect ratio!

I recently shot a film in 16:9 using a Canon XL2, DV NTSC, 720x480, 23.98 fps. Now, after editing my whole project in FCP I am ready to make a DVD. So, I export it using compressor and when I go to view the video file it is all stretched sideways.
The ONLY way I have come up with of making it not look stretched is by compressing it in 4:3. This, of course, does not help me in making a DVD because the moment I put it in DVD pro it is stretched out again to be 16:9.
This is baffling me.
Somebody please help me. I have a deadline to finish this film TOMORROW and I'm at a complete loss. I'm sure it's something very simple that I just haven't thought of yet, but I've spent hours on this problem and I'm tearing my hair out!

The resolution of the output file is definitely 720x480. Also, as far as it not being true Anamorphic 16:9, that was the first thing that crossed my mind. As I had remembered, the XL2 does indeed shoot in Anamorphic 16:9 rather than just letterboxing a 4:3 image.
One interesting thing that I noticed is that if I go into the Sequence settings and check the box that says anamorphic 16:9 then it will do the exact same thing in the canvas as it does when I export (it stretches it out).
Here are all of my settings, if that will help you folks out:
Capture preset:
Using DV for video input
DCR-TRV900 using NTSC
23.98 frames per second
DV - NTSC at Best quality
24 bits per pixel
720 by 480
Sequence settings:
Frame Size: 720x480
Aspect Ratio: NTSC DV (3:2)
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601 / DV(720x480)
Field Dominance: Lower (Even)
Editing Timebase: 23.98
Quicktime Video Settings:
Compressor: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
Quality: 100%
Clip settings:
Format:
Vid Rate: 23.98 fps
Frame Size: 720x480
Compressor: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC
Data Rate: 3.6 MB/sec
Pixel Aspect: NTSC CCIR 601
Field Dominance: Lower (even)
Alpha: None/Ignore
Composite: Normal
I've tried multiple different settings in Compressor and no matter what I change it gives me the same unfavorable result. At this point, I'm not sure where the problem lies (Compressor? DVDSP? FCP?). I've done the same with DVDSP, switching settings around and nothing has helped.
Any more input you folks can give me will be very much appreciated. If you need any more specs from me I'm more than happy to provide them. Thanks!

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sono99 wrote:
Hi,s
first of, let me start by saying that there were many things in your post that you mentioned that I could no understand. 1. Because i am not an Oracle Expert, i use whatever RDBMS whenever i need to. 2. Because another problem has come up and, right now, i cannot inform myself to be able to comprehend it all.Well, could it be that you need to understand the database you are working on in order to comprehend it? That is why we strongly advise you to read the concepts manual first, you need to understand the architecture that Oracle uses, as well as the basic concepts of how oracle does locking and maintains read consistency. It does these different than other database engines, and some things become nonsense if looked at from the viewpoint of a single user.
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quote:
It would be useful to see the execution plan jhust in case you have simplified the problem so much that a critical detail is missing.
First, the query code:
2009-10-20 15:11:59,141 INFO]: OUTPUT_GOBLER:>SQL> CREATE TABLE FAVFRIEND
[2009-10-20 15:11:59,141 INFO]: OUTPUT_GOBLER:> 2 NOLOGGING TABLESPACE TARGET
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[2009-10-20 15:11:59,141 INFO]: OUTPUT_GOBLER:> 4 SELECT ID as USRID, FAVF1 as FAVF FROM PROFILE
[2009-10-20 15:11:59,141 INFO]: OUTPUT_GOBLER:> 5 UNION ALL
[2009-10-20 15:11:59,141 INFO]: OUTPUT_GOBLER:> 6 SELECT ID as USRID, FAVF2 AS FAVF FROM PROFILE
[2009-10-20 15:11:59,141 INFO]: OUTPUT_GOBLER:> 7 UNION ALL
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[2009-10-20 15:11:59,141 INFO]: OUTPUT_GOBLER:> 13 ;
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Futhermore, yes, the RDBMS is a test RDBMS... I have droped the database a few times... And I am constantly deleting an re-inserting data into the source database table named PROFILE.>
I also make sure do check all the datafile statistics, and for this query the amount of RedoLog, Undo "Log", Templife used is negligible, practically zero.Create table is DDL, which has implied commits before and afterwards. There is a lot going on, some of it dependent on the volume of data returned. The Oracle database writer writes things out when it feels like it, there are situations where it might just leave it in memory for a while. With nologging, Oracle may not care that you can't perform recovery if it is interrupted. So you might want to look into statspack or EM to tell you what is going on, the datafile statistics may not be all that informative for this case.
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Most of the I/O is reading, a few of the I/O is writing.
My idea is not to optimize this query, it is to understand how it performs. Well, have you read the Concepts manual?
I have other implementations to test, namely I having trouble with one of them.
Furthermore, I doubt the query Plan Oracle is using actually involves tablescans (as I I'd like it to do); because in the Wait Events, most of the wait time for this query is spent doing "db file scattered read". And I think this is different from a tablescan.Please look up the definition of [db file scattered read|http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14211/instance_tune.htm#sthref703].
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When i can avoid it I don't query the database directly through JDBC, i use the RDBMS command line client, which is supposed to be very robust. Er, is that sqlplus?
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Furthermore, Since the database is not a production database, it is there so I can do my tests. I don't have to be concerned with what other sessions may be doing to my system. There are only the sessions I control.No, there are sessions Oracle controls. If you are on unix, you can easily see this, but there are ways to see it on Windows, too. In some cases, your own sessions can affect themselves.
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then what it the array fetch size ? If the array fetch size is large enough the number of block visits would be similar to the number of physical block reads.
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By the way, I don't get the query results into my client, the query results are dumped into a target output table.
So, if the arraysize has something to do with the number of rows that Oracle is returning the client in each step... I think it doesn't matter.You may hear this phrase a lot:
"It depends."
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As for the query plan, If i am not mistaken you can't get get query plans for queries that are: create table as select.What?
JG@TTST> explain plan for create table jjj as select * from product_master;
Explained.
JG@TTST> select count(*) from plan_table;
COUNT(*)
         3
I can however commit the create table part and just call for the evalution of the Select part of the query; i believe it should be same.
"Optimizer"     "Cost"     "Cardinality"     "Bytes"     "Partition Start"     "Partition Stop"     "Partition Id"     "ACCESS PREDICATES"     "FILTER PREDICATES"
"SELECT STATEMENT"     "ALL_ROWS"     "2563"     "586110"     "15238860"     ""     ""     ""     ""     ""
"UNION-ALL"     ""     ""     ""     ""     ""     ""     ""     ""     ""
"TABLE ACCESS(FULL) SONO99.PROFILE"     ""     "512"     "117222"     "3047772"     ""     ""     ""     ""     ""
"TABLE ACCESS(FULL) SONO99.PROFILE"     ""     "513"     "117222"     "3047772"     ""     ""     ""     ""     ""
"TABLE ACCESS(FULL) SONO99.PROFILE"     ""     "513"     "117222"     "3047772"     ""     ""     ""     ""     ""
"TABLE ACCESS(FULL) SONO99.PROFILE"     ""     "513"     "117222"     "3047772"     ""     ""     ""     ""     ""
"TABLE ACCESS(FULL) SONO99.PROFILE"     ""     "513"     "117222"     "3047772"     ""     ""     ""     ""     ""
This query plan was taken from sql developer, exported to txt, and the PROFILE table here has only 100k tuples.
Right now I am more concerned with testing the MODEL query. Which Oracle doesn't seem to be able any more... but that is a matter for another thread.
Regarding this plan. The Union ALL seems to be more than just a binary Operator... IT seems to be Neray.
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But this is just my feeling.Your feeling is uninteresting. Telling us what you really hope to accomplish might be more interesting.
Anyway, in terms of consistent gets, how many consistent gets should the RDBMS be doing? 5
One for each table block?It depends.
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My best regards,
Nuno (99sono xp).

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The first item on the pop-up menu that will appear should be "Sequence" ... click on it and just say ok at the next screen without even reading it. It's irrelevant, really.
Then going back to your project panel (we assume you've already imported your footage into it) click & drag a clip from the proj. panel to the timeline, or move one from the "Source monitor" to the timeline ... you should get a pop-up asking if you want the timeline changed to your footage, or your footage changed to the timeline. Take the timeline/sequence settings changed to match footage, and go.
That SHOULD take care of the problem in the vast majority of cases. It is such a simple fix, and so often the easiest and "correctist", that it's worth a try. Navigating the choices of setting up sequences is best left for those people who say, study GPU algorithms for a couple hours before going to bed for the sheer exhilaration of it ... unless, of course, PrPro actuall does a face-plant with your footage. But it mostly works good at it ... once you just let it ... so you might give that a try, takes what ... 20 seconds to see if it works?
neil

Media Encoder Greater that 7.0 does not recongnise SD footage with correct pixel aspect ratio

Hello,
I logged this bug with Adobe last year but even through the latest releases the bug still remains and is a real issue for anyone editing in SD via Premiere Pro CC.
Effectvely when you create a PAL sequence within Premiere Pro CC using SD 720x576 pixels (4:3) you have 2 options to export, either Queue or Export. If you export the footage directly from the PP application to MPEG2 SD then the resulting files are perfect, however if you use the queue option and send it to Media Encoder then the resulting files are incorrectly interpreted and the resulting file looks squashed. I suspect the Media Encoder is defaulting to Square pixels and not 1.09xx which is the default for PAL SD 4:3
The issue only started on Media Encoder version 7.1 but I also checked 7.2 and this still has the bug.
I can't believe this is not effecting a lot of people and its taking so long to resolve. Adobe at the time acknowledged the issue but did not provide a time scale to fix.
If anyone has any words of wisdom I would love to hear from you. Maybe I am missing a simple workaround ?? Which could be to just export and NOT queue, however because I use the batch function a lot this is not always viable.
thanks
Steve

Hi Tom,
thanks for the quick response. I'll attach two screenshots -- one from PP and one from AME, both showing the same test chart, but distorted in AME.
Basically the given parameters are:
Sequence is D1/DV PAL, 720x576, PAR 1.0940, framerate 25
Export settings are: MXF OP1a, resolution + framerate same as sequence, IMX 50 PAL.
If you still require the preset file, I'll send that separately.
all the best
Daniel

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